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  • Telstra workers to strike from Friday

    Telstra workers will strike after negotiations with the company's management over enterprise bargaining agreements reached a deadlock, its main union said today.

  • Emergency IBM meeting for Air NZ

    Air New Zealand will hold an urgent meeting with IBM today over a computer crash which crippled the airline's services and disrupted thousands of passengers on Sunday.

  • Telstra to fight separation Bill

    Telstra said today it will oppose the passage of the government's Bill which would allow it to force separation on the big telecommunications company.

  • Vodafone backs away from 2G advice

    Vodafone has said that advice given by one of its employees to IT labour hire firm 3W joint CEO Bruce Mills that that he should switch his BlackBerry fleet to slower 2G services to avoid drop-outs was inaccurate.

  • Aussie chief of Nokia-Siemens to leave

    The Australian chief of Finnish telecommunications networking company Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), Simon Beresford-Wylie, will leave by November.

Blogs (16)

  • Read the blog post - Brad Howarth

    Aussie start-up execs hit Silicon Valley

    The global financial crisis might have tarnished some of Silicon Valley's lustre, but for many Australian technology entrepreneurs who have migrated to the US, it hasn't lost its bright shiny status.

  • Read the blog post - Juha Saarinen

    Rethink Visionstream disaster, Telecom

    Telecom needs to quickly jettison the forced Visionstream owner-operator deal for lines techies if it cares about its image.

  • Read the blog post - Brad Howarth

    Doing for AV what VoIP did for telephony

    Sydney-based start-up Audinate is making traditional analog cabling obsolete in favour of TCP/IP-based networking technology. And it's doing a pretty good job so far, with its technology used by World Youth Day and the Sydney Opera House.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Et tu, Internode?

    Is Hackett the Saruman the once-good wizard who is seduced by the dark powers of Sauron of my recent Lord of the Rings scenario? Is something rotten in Renmark and elsewhere?

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Kevin Rudd is a cyber agent of KAOS

    This week the Australian online banking system was tested by an agent of KAOS Kevin Rudd and his $10 billion dollar fiscal package that, as Agent 86 would say, "missed it by that much" on knocking out the banking system.

Features and Case Studies (194)

  • Twitter in court: Why not streaming video?

    Twitter coverage of the AFACT vs. iiNet trial is breathing new life into court reporting. Why don't we as a society take the next step and stream it all live to the internet, video and audio?

  • Q&A: BMC CEO Bob Beauchamp

    BMC Software CEO Bob Beauchamp has headed up the company since the beginning of the decade, transforming it into the business service management power it is today. We find out what his priorities are.

  • Telstra should plan for separation

    If Telstra is serious about engaging with the Federal Government over the National Broadband Network it should immediately start the work needed to break itself in two.

  • Not Waving, but clowning?

    Microsoft Wave. That's like naming your new car the Ford Prius. Why go head-to-head with Google armed only with a glossy catalogue?

  • VoIP war stories from the Australian front

    In this feature, ZDNet.com.au speaks to IT managers across the nation to collate their "war stories" deploying Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in their organisations. Cut through the spin and find out what's really happening on the Australian VoIP front.

Videos (3)

  • 2009: The year in preview

    ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan predicts five tech stories he believes will happen in the coming year. Topics include the fate of Yahoo, enterprise software as a mass disrupter, and whether or not the Netbook will get a do-over.

  • IBM strike to disrupt Westpac, Qantas?

    Despite the small number of IBM workers involved in the upcoming strike, their walking off work could have a dire effect on many of IBM's customers, including Westpac, Qantas, Customs and Centrelink, according to the Australian Services Union.

  • iiNet enjoys disrupting the market

    One of the best things about Australia's number three broadband provider iiNet, is that the company is a disruptive influence on the market, according to its CTO Greg Bader.

Reviews (40)

  • ViewSonic VLED221wm

    ViewSonic's LED back-lit monitor leaves a lot to be desired in the performance stakes, especially considering its price.

  • McAfee Wireless Protection

    With McAfee Wireless Protection, McAfee enhances last year's stand-alone wireless protection application with a few new features, however much of what you can do with McAfee Wireless Protection is available for free with Windows XP.

  • Data centre 101

    Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.

  • UPS for all seasons: 6 appliances tested

    Suffering from blackouts, brownouts, or sags? How about bushfires, floods, or cyclones? Then maybe you need a UPS. We review six UPS appliances.

  • Untangling the wireless future

    Faced with an increasing number of wireless technologies and standards, planning a long-term networking strategy is a daunting prospect.

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